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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender - Community Reviews back

by Leslye Walton
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Bookish thoughts!!!
Bookish thoughts!!! rated it 6 years ago
This book is my favorite book I have read this year. It truly was a beautiful and magical adventure. Summary: To my great misfortune, I was once mistaken for an angelPain in love is the Roux family birthright. For Ava Lavender, a girl born with the wings of a bird, it is key to her fate.Ava traces...
LindaLeest
LindaLeest rated it 9 years ago
TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE. So I have mixed feelings about this book; the title is misleading, because it isnt just about the strange and beautiful sorrows of ava lavender, but also about her mother, grandmother, great grandmother, etc. So it took me some time to get in to this book, because in the begin...
Read All The Things! Reviews
Read All The Things! Reviews rated it 9 years ago
It took me a week to write this review because I couldn’t find the words to describe how much I love this novel. I don’t know what to say to make you go read it. The narrator, Ava, is born with feathers and wings. To find out why, she starts looking into her family history. This book chronicles fo...
The Reader Who Lives a Thousand Lives
I was so excited for this book! So, I picked it up from my library app(Overdrive). I was trembling with anticipation as I read the first couple of words! The writing is intoxicating and just when I thought I had fallen in love (BOOM!). It took a turn for the worst. To my dismay, I had to put this bo...
La Mala *the mean girl*
La Mala *the mean girl* rated it 10 years ago
El verdadero título de esta novela debería ser: "Miss Lavender's house for Peculiar Children"cuak!Bien,Veamos....Teniendo en cuenta de que estamos frente a una novela perteneciente al Realismo Mágico, está complicado no separarla de sus tocayas de género. Difícil leer la historia de las mujeres Lav...
XLeptodactylous
XLeptodactylous rated it 10 years ago
The writing was good, often too poetical for a novel, but the characters held no sway and their lives were not what I wanted to hear. I cared not for their woes.
saccharinepleasures
saccharinepleasures rated it 10 years ago
I had this book sitting on my shelf for almost a year now and I couldn't get myself to go through with it the first time. While the storytelling is in fact, beautiful, it's not exactly for me. It's beautiful in a simple way, and I guess I've been reading too much poetic prose to be able to appreciat...
Nicole Reads
Nicole Reads rated it 10 years ago
What a beautiful, melancholic book. Extremely easy to read even though there's no visible plot to speak of. It's a family saga. It tells the story of several women and their misfortunes when it comes to love.The prose is heavenly. The descriptions made my heart sore. What can I say? I'm a sucker for...
Bibliofiend's Bookbag
Bibliofiend's Bookbag rated it 10 years ago
The plot: Foolish love and heartbreak has followed the descendants of the Roux family for four generations. This novel shares the tale of Ava Lavender, born with wings, as well as the intricate, strange, and forlorn tales of her mother and grandmother. As her desire to learn more about herself and h...
EmilySavant
EmilySavant rated it 10 years ago
You know when you catch a TV show you haven’t ever seen, but it's been playing for years? The kind when you just so happen to stop on a channel and it is intriguing and you like the hero’s face and funny one-liners so you Google it, and Google turns into Netflix and Netflix turns into buying everyth...
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